Example sentences of "[noun sg] as she [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gas burned with a flickering blue light as she switched on the fire in the sitting-room , and for a while she held out her hands to the flame . |
| 2 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |
| 3 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 4 | Sara shivered a little in her thin American suit as she walked down the gangway and got into the bus which was to take her and the other passengers to the arrival building . |
| 5 | A workmanlike silence fell , broken only by the snip of scissors on stems , and the steady scratching of Folly 's pencil as she scribbled out the orders for next day . |
| 6 | Patrick smiled at the woman as she brought in the tea . |
| 7 | Miss Harker was a little out of breath as she rolled up the petition . |
| 8 | She slipped on a thin gauze nightgown , and , despite the clammy , stifling heat of the night , she could n't help shivering with exhaustion as she drew back the bed cover , and crawled gratefully between the thin cotton sheets . |
| 9 | ‘ Not everyone , ’ said Lydia after a moment 's consideration as she worked out the least impolite way of putting what she wished to say . |
| 10 | ’ Gertrude lowered her voice as she yielded up the spiciest morsel of her story . |
| 11 | But she paid them no heed as she held out the lid for Charlotte to see . |
| 12 | She preserved a dignified silence as she gathered up the trailing dressing-gown in one hand and kept the other on the rail attached to the wall on one side of the staircase . |
| 13 | Her manner and her uniform will secure the patient 's trust as she carries out the necessary investigations , while her understanding of the aims of the study will ensure that she can offer the research team more than columns of figures . |
| 14 | No — that would be too much to expect , she decided with a pang of misery that made her blink as she turned over the food . |
| 15 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 16 | There was a lump in her throat as she put down the phone . |